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Repeopling La Manche - New Perspectives on Neanderthal Archaeology and Landscapes from La Cotte de St Brelade (Hardcover)
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Repeopling La Manche - New Perspectives on Neanderthal Archaeology and Landscapes from La Cotte de St Brelade (Hardcover)
Series: Prehistoric Society Research Papers, 10
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The current geography of north-west Europe, from the perspective of
long-term Pleistocene climate change, is temporary. The seaways
that separate southern Britain from northern France comprise a
flooded landscape open to occupation by hunter-gatherers for large
parts of the 0.5 million years since the English Channel’s
formation. While much of this record is now inaccessible to
systematic archaeological investigation it is critical that we
consider past human societies in the region in terms of access to,
inhabitation in, and exploitation of this landscape. This latest
volume of the acclaimed Prehistoric Society Research Papers
provides a starting point for approaching the Middle Palaeolithic
record of the English Channel region and considering the ecological
opportunities and behavioural constraints this landscape offered to
Neanderthal groups in north-west Europe. The volume reviews the
Middle Palaeolithic archaeological record along the fringes of La
Manche in northern France and southern Britain. It examines this
record in light of recent advances in quaternary stratigraphy,
science-based dating, and palaeoecology and explores how
Palaeolithic archaeology in the region has developed in an
interdisciplinary way to transform our understanding of Neanderthal
behaviour. Focusing in detail on a particular sub-region of this
landscape, the Normano-Breton Gulf, the volume presents the results
of recent research focused on exceptionally productive coastal
capture points for Neanderthal archaeology. In turn the long-term
behavioural record of La Cotte de St Brelade is presented and
explored, offering a key to changing Neanderthal behaviour. Aspects
of movement into and through these landscapes, changing
technological and raw material procurement strategies, hunting
patterns and site structures, are presented as accessible
behaviours that change at site and landscape scales in response to
changing climate, sea level and ecology over the last 250,000
years.
General
Imprint: |
Oxbow Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Prehistoric Society Research Papers, 10 |
Release date: |
May 2023 |
Editors: |
Beccy Scott
• Andrew Shaw
• Katharine Scott
• Matt Pope
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Dimensions: |
280 x 216mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78925-152-4 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-78925-152-4 |
Barcode: |
9781789251524 |
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